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Summary
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This report is based on usability research with 55 children, who varied by age (6-12 years old) and by country of origin (mainly United States, but some tests conducted in Israel to ensure international scope of the study). We tested the way kids use real sites designed for children as well as their use of the kids' areas of mainsteam websites. The report contains 70 design guidelines that will make websites more suited for children and easier for them to use.
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See sample chapter as thumbnail pages
The guidelines are based on usability tests of the following sites:
- ABC news for Kids
- Alfy
- Belmont Bank Kids' corner
- Bonus
- Boom
- Free Zone
- Fun Brain
- Galim
- Game Brain
- Game Goo
- Kids Korner
- Kids.co.il
- Kids.com
- Loop
- MaMaMedia
- Playhouse Disney
- Sesame Street
- Sport Illustrated for Kids
- Squigly's Playhouse
- The Kidz Page
- Willy Wonka
- Yahooligans!
- Yoyo
- Zeeks
as well as usability tests of children using the following sites intended for grownups:
- Amazon.com
- weather.com
- Yahoo!
Richly illustrated with 86 screenshots and sequences of animation frames, showing designs that worked well for children as well as designs that caused them usability problems.
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Table of Contents
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132-page report
- Executive Summary
- Web Design for Kids Today
- Why Look at Usability for Kids Today?
- Contemporary Design
- Kids on the Web
- A New Medium
- Online Behavior
- Checklist of Design Guidelines
- Design Guidelines in Depth
- General Interaction: 11 guidelines
- Text: 10 guidelines
- Multimedia: 15 guidelines
- Navigation and Search: 8 guidelines
- Graphical User Interface: 9 guidelines
- System Errors and Help: 10 guidelines
- Content: 7 guidelines
- Kids and Technology Today
- From Niche to Mainstream
- Patterns of Use
- Comparing Usability for Kids and Adults
- User Groups: Ages, Languages, Genders.
- International Differences
- Gender Differences
- How this Study Was Conducted and Why
- About Using this Methodology
- Designing Studies
- Executing Studies
- Online Concerns for Parents and Children
- What Kids' Caretakers Should Know
- What Kids Should Know
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Who Should Read This Report?
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- Anybody who is responsible for the design or strategy for websites that are targeted at children or that have an area or subsite intended for children.
Running a similar international usability study yourself to collect comparative design lessons from a large number of websites would cost about $200,000.
Please help us continue publishing low-price reports by buying a site license if you have colleagues who will read the report. If you only need it for yourself, then that's obviously what the single-user license is for. If somebody "gives" you a copy, then please buy a download anyway to keep prices down in the future.
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The report is a standard PDF file, formatted to print on both 8.5x11 and A4 paper. Any recent version of the Acrobat Reader will suffice to read or print the file. No special software is needed. The file is not copy-protected: we trust you to buy a site license if you are going to have several people read the report.
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